Subdeacon Joe Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 I was 10 years old in 1957, I remember it fondly!!! Great time to grow up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 1957, the year I started high school. Three years later I was in college. Three years after that I had my own TV show. Two years on down the road I graduated from college and I was an Army officer and with a wife. One year beyond that I was living on Okinawa with my wife and son. Soon I was a Commanding Officer and was shortly promoted to Captain . 1968 put me in Vietnam. In 1969, just twelve years after this narrative began, we were on the moon, I was teaching school, we were the people in this movie, living "The American Dream", owning two cars, had a TV, clothes dryer, and all the rest of the marvels of science And, as the old slogan said, "Time Marches On". Sometime it seems like only a few days ago, other times it seems so far back I can't believe it. The last 80 years have seen the rise of the US to the greatest power on earth, with the most productive people ever with the greatest individual wealth of any nation, and freedoms that most of the planet has never known. I'm glad I was there to see it..... and I'm glad that I will not likely live to see it all torn down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 America lived through six years of World War II? I count three years and nine months. And why, when they do one of these nostalgic pieces, no matter what the year is, gasoline was only $0.25 a gallon? When I started driving, in 1971, gasoline was $0.18. and frequently gas wars would bring it down to a dime. A QUARTER??? That was outrageously expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 I was a hot shot Little League All Star pitcher that year......sadly I threw my arm away pitching junk. But it was an absolute glorious time with all the memories of family and farm life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 18, 2019 Author Share Posted August 18, 2019 4 minutes ago, Alpo said: America lived through six years of World War II? I count three years and nine months. Started in '39, ended in '45. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 12 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said: Started in '39, ended in '45. True but we didn't enter it until after Pearl Harbor. Dec 7, 1941 so I have to agree with Alpo on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 In 1957 I was a twinkle in my Dad’s eye...caused by dust, I am sure. I was was born in 1961. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 9 minutes ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: In 1957 I was a twinkle in my Dad’s eye...caused by dust, I am sure. I was was born in 1961. You young whipper snapper!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 18 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: True but we didn't enter it until after Pearl Harbor. Dec 7, 1941 so I have to agree with Alpo on this one. We lived through it like the rest of the world. We supplied everything for the war effort long before we were drawn into the actual conflict. Whole units of aircraft and pilots were involved in voluntary action and support. Our shipping was under constant attack, almost from the very START of hostilities!! It wasn’t official, but we were involved almost from the first shot fired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 We were preparing for war in 1938-9. Designing planes, tanks, war games. gas was more expensive in the North. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 2 hours ago, Alpo said: America lived through six years of World War II? I count three years and nine months. And why, when they do one of these nostalgic pieces, no matter what the year is, gasoline was only $0.25 a gallon? When I started driving, in 1971, gasoline was $0.18. and frequently gas wars would bring it down to a dime. A QUARTER??? That was outrageously expensive. If you only count declared war you're right, but if you only count declared wars we weren't in a war in Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and a host of other places either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 18, 2019 Author Share Posted August 18, 2019 2 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said: We lived through it like the rest of the world. We supplied everything for the war effort long before we were drawn into the actual conflict. Whole units of aircraft and pilots were involved in voluntary action and support. Our shipping was under constant attack, almost from the very START of hostilities!! It wasn’t official, but we were involved almost from the first shot fired. Exactly my thoughts, thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake River Clay SASS #34984 Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 1957 was a very good year. I was 2 years old. My sister was born in 1958. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 I turned six in '57. Still remember going outside to look up at the night sky to see if I could spot Sputnik. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punxsutawneypete Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 In 1957 I started kindergarten. Earlier this year I went back to the old neighborhood and saw that my old elementary school that was turned into a day care center was eventually torn down. I used to walk to school there and no, it wasn't 3 miles uphill each way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 In late, late 1957 I was a twinkle in my Mom's eye. I was born midway through 1958. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Lessee, in 1957 I was 4 years old and we were living in Torrance, CA where dad was a Navy project officer at North American Aviation. That year my mom gave him a Lionel train set that I now have and still set up around the Christmas tree every year. Late that year, we moved to Wash. D.C. where dad was assigned to PAX River NAS. We traveled x-country (before interstate hwys) in the family car -- a '56 Pontiac Star Chief, colors and everything just like the one below, 'cept it had 4" whitewalls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 It was great, I was born in 1948, but all the same I get tired of these cornpone of yesteryear things. Probably because we've heard so many of them the last few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Mebbe it's because some of us now have grandchildren the same age we were then. I'm not wistful or starry-eyed about it like in the video, but it's hard to look at my g-kids and not think of the way things were over 60 years ago. Adding on, I was learning then that what was on TV was BS as I didn't know anyone who lived like those on the tube. Presently, I'm having some wonderful conversations and going thru pics with my 92-year old mom about how things were when she was a kid. Fascinating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painted Mohawk SASS 77785 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Well I was only a little tacker in the 50's, but boy I loved the 60's !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tascosa, SASS# 24838 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 I returned to the ZI in December 1957 from Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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